India, June 5 -- Tom Felton will return as Draco Malfoy in Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The 37-year-old made the announcement on Thursday's episode of Today. He is the first actor from the original cast of the popular movie series to join the stage play, which opened on Broadway in 2018.

Felton has been cast for a 19-week engagement, in which he will play Draco as an adult. The play is set 19 years after the events of JK Rowling's series. It revolves around the children of the Draco, Harry, Ron, and Hermione (now adults) attending Hogwarts.

"We start 19 years later," Felton said of the play during his appearance on Today. "Now we're no longer children. We actually are the parents. So as much as it is reprising an old ro...